[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/2] RFC: Implement deterministic uid/gid

[Mark Hatle]

I have updated the git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib mhatle/uidgid to the 
latest oe-core master.

I haven't seen any comments on this RFC yet.  Does anyone have any opinion 
either way on the code referenced here?

I'm confident patch 01/02 should be added to master.

The patch 02/02 works properly in all of my testing and does implement support 
for 'deterministic uid/gid' with dynamic passwd/group file construction during 
package install.  The code is only activated if USERADD_REWRITE_PARAMS is set to 
'1', so it's low risk -- but it does add a fairly large chunk of code to be 
maintained over time.

--Mark

On 12/10/13, 12:31 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> The following series implements the deterministic uid/gid setting for a
> distribution.  Currently when a filesystem is generated the uid/gid values
> are generally set at install time, so the install order determines what
> the actual uid/gid values become.  In order to create a deterministic uid/gid
> set, that still dynamically constructs the passwd/group file, we add an
> option to read a special passwd/group file to allow the system to determine
> the values.
>
> It uses the existing parameters, and the values from the special passwd/group
> files to reconstruct the parameter set to ensure these items are fully
> defined with static values.
>
> The first patch (01/02) is generally applicable.  It fixes a real bug in
> the way the user/group adds occur today within the system.
>
> Patch 02/02 implements the new functionality.
>
>
> The following changes since commit 8505f0fa48cc79d51616b923c6e2c778c4b46a44:
>
>    libmatchbox: use PACKAGECONFIG (2013-12-10 14:13:01 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib mhatle/uidgid
>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=mhatle/uidgid
>
> Mark Hatle (2):
>    useradd.bbclass: Fix build time install issues
>    useradd.bbclass: Add ability to select a static uid/gid automatically
>
>   meta/classes/useradd.bbclass         | 247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   meta/conf/local.conf.sample.extended |  24 ++++
>   2 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>